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The Universiade is a biennial multisport event for students in full-time education. FISU, the international federation for university sports, has announced that it will drop the name ‘Universiade’ in favour of World University Games from 2020, along with some new branding. The first Universiade was held in 1959, and the most recent edition in Napoli in 2019 attracted 6000 student athletes across 15 sports. Archery has been part of the competition since 2003 and became a core sport in 2017, with both recurve and compound contested. Lee Woo Seok, Kang Chae Young, Anton Bulaev and Andrea Becerra are archery’s reigning champions. Former winners include Olympic gold medallists Viktor Ruban, Ki Bo Bae, and Park Sung Hyun. The next edition will be held in Chengdu, China, in 2021.…

Colombian compound archer Sara Lopez has been chosen as archery’s nomination for the World Games athlete award. The World Games is a multisport event held every four years with a programme that features compound target archery, and recurve and barebow field archery. It specifically features events that are not held in the Summer Olympics. Lopez won the last edition of the World Games, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in 2017. She also won a record fifth World Cup Finals title in Moscow in September and took gold in the Pan American Games, the first competition to be held there. The next edition of the World Games takes place in July 2021 in Birmingham, USA.…

The rise in barebow archery, especially using the stringwalking technique, keeps bringing us new products that are designed to provide more precision with new features. Michael Meyer is currently a pioneer in the field, after he caused a sensation around the stringwalking world a few months ago with his innovative Zniper arrow rest. Now, after a lot of tinkering, Meyer has launched a new tab, the Zniper Barebow Tab. At a price of around £95 in the UK, it is anything but inexpensive, but has some surprises on board. To get some things out of the way: yes, the tabs can be set as desired, and yes, they are World Archery compliant. The barebow rules speak exclusively of “uniform markings”, and there is no mention of the spacing anywhere. Accordingly,…

ELLISON MAKES HISTORY WITH A 900 At the 54th annual Vegas Shoot, American archer Brady Ellison shot the first 900 score by a recurve archer in the history of the event. The Vegas Shoot requires archers to shoot thirty arrows a day for three consecutive days, with a maximum total score of 900, a score only ever previously achieved by compound archers. This year, 22 compound men and one woman of the 3,800+ competitors shot 900, to be joined by Ellison shooting the same score with a recurve bow “I wasn’t really expecting to shoot a 900 this weekend, but I wanted to shoot one. I wanted to shoot one 300 here in Vegas. And then I shot the first one and I was like, you know I’m shooting good…

World Archery named its athletes of the year for 2019 in a ceremony at the Vegas Shoot in February. Brady Ellison, Kang Chae Young, Mike Schloesser and Sara Lopez were named the best archers in recurve and compound. Schloesser and Lopez retained their titles – it is the third such award for Schloesser and a fifth consecutive trophy for Lopez. Ruman Shana (Bangladesh) and his coach Martin Frederick were chosen as breakthrough athlete and coach of 2019, following the 24-year-old’s historic bronze medal at the World Championships, with the podium finish qualifying Bangladesh’s first spot to an Olympic Games. The para trophies were won by the compound open gold medallists from the 2019 World Archery Para Championships, Ben Thompson (USA) and Alim Nur Syahidah (Singapore). There was also a Judge…

Archery is unique in the world of sports, unlike football, tennis or even athletics if you want to compete you must do some pretty heavy investing first. For this reason it’s often been said that archery is elitist. All sports have different spending options, depending on the brand name and quality of the item you’re buying, but for us it’s rarely as simple as picking up a standard size ball, a racket in your price range or a pair of trainers in your shoe size. Compound competition bows often nudge over £1000 or $1300 and they come in a massive range of sizes and features, so it’s no wonder that many find the sport inaccessible. So what options are there for the youth shooter who’ll outgrow their bow in a…

VEGAS SHOOT: SELECTED INDIVIDUAL MEDALLISTS COMPOUND OPEN • Kyle Douglas (USA) • Jesse Broadwater (USA) • Christopher Perkins (Canada) COMPOUND WOMEN • Paige Pearce (USA) • Sara Lopez (USA) • Linda Ochoa-Anderson (USA) RECURVE MEN • Brady Ellison (USA) • Crispin Duenas (Canada) • Florian Kahllund (Germany) RECURVE WOMEN • Michelle Kroppen (Germany) • Aida Roman (Mexico) • Elena Richter (Germany) CHAMPIONSHIP BAREBOW OPEN • Richard Stark (USA) • Teddy Kibel (USA) • Brad Marshall (USA) THE GAME OF NUMBERS As usual, it was a tournament of superlatives. The 2020 edition of the Vegas Shoot registered 3816 archers – getting ever closer to the elusive 4000 archers – with shooters travelling from 53 countries around the world to compete in this event. The compound flight division was the biggest yet,…

LISELL JÄATMA (ESTONIA) Reigning Nimes champion, silver medallist in Vegas and Bow cover star BOW: Mathews TRX 36 DRAW LENGTH: 24.5 DRAW WEIGHT: 54# REST AND BLADE - AAE Pro blade / Freak blade .008“/.010“ SIGHT: AXCEL Achieve XP compound-9" SCOPE: AXCEL AV-25 plus scope LENS: Clear Targets Doc’s Choice Lens: AV25-8X DOT: Medium, because it is not too small and not too big GRIP: Standard - not modified, but I put Wilson tennis grip on it. STRINGS: ZEBRA® Trophy RELEASE AID: Stanislawski Blackjack STABILISERS: Doinker Estremo Elite. Front: 31”, 12oz, side bar: 12”, 8oz ARROWS: Outdoor, I use Carbon Express Nano RZ 500 and indoor I use Carbon Express Tank 23D 400 VANES: Outdoor: AAE Plastifletch Max PM2.0. Indoor: Falco feathers POINTS: Outdoor: tungsten 120 NOCKS: Beiter hunter nocks IS YOUR INDOOR AND OUTDOOR SET UP THE SAME OR DIFFERENT? "No they’re not identical.…

Asking a field archer when the indoor season starts and you are likely to get a funny look. The National Field Archery Society and English Field Archery Association host all shoots in woods and competitions run outdoors all year round and in all weathers. If you are looking to get in more shooting, you can enjoy winter field archery with a few small adaptations. Even in a familiar set of woods, shooting in winter gives a new perspective. There may be less daylight but in deciduous areas, parts of the wood which are usually in shadow are now open. Where undergrowth has died back, there may be new potential placements for shots taking advantage of greater access and clearer lanes. However, care must be taken to avoid areas where the…

The Lancaster Archery Classic, the largest tournament not part of the Indoor World Series concluded in Mannheim, USA at the end of January, with around 2000 archers competing. Lancaster has very different rules from most other sanctioned indoor tournaments, with a 60-arrow qualification on a three spot target face and the small 10-ring (2cm), normally used by compounds, scoring 11 and the larger 4cm 10-ring scoring 10 for all bowstyles. Thus, the maximum score is 660 points. The finals feature a winner-stays-on style shootdown in which participants are often asked to give commentary after each end. Mike Schloesser, Sarah Prieels, Brady Ellison, Casey Kaufhold and Keith Trail won the professional classes. In a curious coincidence, all five were runners-up last year. Brady Ellison won back-to-back in 2017 and 2018 before…

GBR SELECTION FOR TOKYO IMMINENT As previously reported, Great Britain won six spots (three men, three women)for Tokyo at the World Championships in Den Bosch in 2019 – the only non-Asian country to achieve this. Four men and three women have been officially named to the Olympic squad: Tom Barber, Tom Hall, Patrick Huston, Alex Wise, Sarah Bettles, Naomi Folkard, and Bryony Pitman. These athletes have achieved the minimum qualifying scores necessary. The minimum 70m round scores required are based on the scores from the last World Championships. Men have to shoot either a single round of 678 or more, two rounds of 673 or more, or three rounds of 659+ with at least one score of 673+. Women have to shoot a single round of 663+, two rounds of…

IN ASSOCIATION WITH I'M THINKING ABOUT TRYING A KISSER BUTTON. THEY SEEM TO GO IN AND OUT OF FASHION? The kisser button is a simple device attached to your recurve bow string to help with shot consistency. The logic behind it is that it is one more reference point on the face to ensure that the string and drawing hand are set in the same position shot after shot. Attaching the kisser button accurately to the string is essential, and it is important that it references a place on the face that cannot or does not move during the normal shot cycle. Most set it up so that it touches a certain part of the top lip: hence the term kisser button. Unlike stabilisers and clickers, a kisser button is…